06/21/1886
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"A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected."
"I regard the cause of civil service reform as so firmly established and its value so fully demonstrated."
"Any other theory cheapens and in a measure discredits a process which more than any other is a manifestation of sovereign authority."
"It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government and our people all the benefits which its inauguration pro..."